God blesses us along the journey.
Do you ever look around and think about where you are and how you got here? For many of us, seemingly inconsequential decisions that we have made along the way would have landed us somewhere entirely differently altogether.
From the college we decided to attend, to the date we said yes to, to the party invitation we said yes or no to, all of the steps and missteps along the way put us where we are.
I am the mother of a high school freshman and looking at high school through the lens of an adult, a mother, a person who has been-there-done-that, is quite an experience. She constantly makes little decisions that can impact her life in one way or another.
This is a time where I have learned that deep faith becomes as essential to my sanity as breathing. This is the time where it really pays to remember that God blesses all of our broken paths and roads that lead us eventually to where He wants us to go.
I believe that we are all given special talents and callings, but how we get there depends largely on us, because our Creator gave us this thing called free will. So, obviously we will screw up along the way and get sidetracked and turned around, but if we keep our focus on Him, we will eventually get it right and it’s so amazing how God can take our mess and make it our message.
Every time I turn on my computer these days, there will be something scrolling about someone doing or finding the “unthinkable.” I find news reports that lead with that terminology as well. Someone has done the “unthinkable.”
But, with God, we can be blessed with unthinkably good things and they sometimes don’t even happen until it seems really late in the game. Of course, our timing and God’s has never been the same. Look up Abraham and Sarah’s story if you need a reminder.
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
Believe it my friends. You are loved. You are blessed and God blesses your broken road and mine as we journey here until He calls us home and we see Jesus face to face. So, hold your head up and smile. Whatever choices you have made good and bad, can be used for His purpose. Just hand them over and sit back and watch the Artist. I’ll bet you will be amazed.
Have an awesome day!
Wendy 🙂